> AI lab founders believe they are in a civilizational competition for control of the entire future lightcone, and will be made Dictator of the Universe if they succeed.
Bingo, but I'd argue this is only scratching the surface of how twisted things are.
A lot of the stuff these labs put out (see: Amodei's cult-like blog ramblings) reeks of what I call "sociopathic utopianism" - essentially, the logical extreme of ends-justified means, made worse in the context of AI labs by the singularity pseudo-religion.
They all truly believe that AGI/ASI is possible, imminent, and could lead to utopia... so achieving that goal will surely outweigh any unsavory acts they commit in the pursuit of it.
This is why I think it's possible OpenAI took out a hit on Suchir; getting bogged down in a legal battle could delay the arrival of their machine god messiah. Same for defrauding benchmarks - they just need a "few more rounds" of investor cash, and by the time those run out, they'll surely have AGI on lock!
Fools. I look forward to them all getting prison time.
Bingo, but I'd argue this is only scratching the surface of how twisted things are.
A lot of the stuff these labs put out (see: Amodei's cult-like blog ramblings) reeks of what I call "sociopathic utopianism" - essentially, the logical extreme of ends-justified means, made worse in the context of AI labs by the singularity pseudo-religion.
They all truly believe that AGI/ASI is possible, imminent, and could lead to utopia... so achieving that goal will surely outweigh any unsavory acts they commit in the pursuit of it.
This is why I think it's possible OpenAI took out a hit on Suchir; getting bogged down in a legal battle could delay the arrival of their machine god messiah. Same for defrauding benchmarks - they just need a "few more rounds" of investor cash, and by the time those run out, they'll surely have AGI on lock!
Fools. I look forward to them all getting prison time.